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William Baxter Brittain, age 84 of Ellenboro, died Saturday, February 24, 2024. Bill was born in Clinton, SC July 30, 1939, and was a son of the late Ernest Baxter Brittain and Helen Elizabeth Smith Brittain. He worked for Overnite Trucking as a driver and dock supervisor until retirement and was a member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church.

Gathered around a table in the English as a Second Language (ESL) evening class at Isothermal Community College recently, students from several countries talked with each other and shared laughs as if they were family.

Jimmy Melton, age 80, of Ellenboro, passed away Thursday, February 22.

Lee Davidson, age 69, of the Shiloh Community, passed away Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Melvia Kathleen (Kathy) Greene, age 79 of Forest City NC, died February 23, 2024.

Robin Parsons, age 59, passed away Friday, February 23rd 2024.

Ricky Ray Lowery, age 70, of Forest City, passed away Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Romel Nicolas Santiago, age 51, of Forest City, passed away, Monday, February 19, 2024.

Jimmy "Jim" Dean Bailey, 77, of Mill Spring, passed away, Saturday, February 24, 2024.

Jeffrey Ivester, age 71, of Ellenboro, passed away Thursday, February 22, 2024.

Sharon "Sherry" Morris Hardin died February 16, 2024.

Sarah Jo Biggerstaff Lattimore, 68, of Forest City, entered into the presence of her Lord Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

Constance Gayle Marie Smith, 72, of Lake Lure, passed away Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Susan Lynch, age 59, of Rutherfordton, passed away Thursday, February 15, 2024.

Alton Eugene "Al" Radford, age 83 of Forest City died Saturday, February 17, 2024. Al was born October 9, 1940, in Rutherford County and was a son of the late Lonzo and Katie Wilkie Radford.

Frances Ward, age 88, of Forest City, woke up to see the beauty of her heavenly home as she passed from this temporal life into the eternal presence of God Sunday, February 18, 2024.

A Connecticut couple who transferred to Rutherford County in 2020 for a job, would experience unbelievable tragedy less than three years later and yet the outpouring of love and friendship after the tragedy changed their lives forever.

Lillie Belle Biggerstaff, age 94, of Gilkey, NC, died Saturday, February 17, 2024.

Christopher Dale Burgess, age 66, of Spindale, died February 14, 2024.